Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor of English Tufts College, Mass...
...narrow streets of the mill city of Fall River, Mass. Frazzled textile workers were trudging into cinema theatres. Clerks were taking off their shoes, preparatory to reading the newspapers, while their wives washed the supper dishes. Unnoticed, a fire broke out in the abandoned mill of the Pocasset Manufacturing Co. on the edge of the business and theatrical district...
...bidding for beautiful things. Since then, he has dropped in at many auctions, adding to his private collection of French books, manuscripts, prints, and etchings. Had his father never taken him to Chickering Hall, Cortland Bishop would probably have been an inventor. He surprised his neighbors at Lenox, Mass., by buying a baby tank; in this staggering vehicle he would ride amiably up and down the solemn rocks and rills of New England, accompanied by two or more large, barking, shaggy dogs. Verbose, clever, dynamic, Cortland Bishop has vast enthusiasms; it is now his plan for the indefinite future...
Died. William Cordes, 55, onetime newsboy, president of the Prophylactic Brush Co. Inc.; of pneumonia; in Northampton, Mass...
...textile industry, for factories have grown under favorable conditions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Then too, the Yankee is perhaps less thrifty. Some of his sons and grandsons have preferred golf sticks to spindles. Others have sold the old factory to absentee owners in Manhattan. Meanwhile, mass production was bringing in foreign populations...